Ceramics in America 2002

Introduction
Robert Hunter

A Pot Potpourri
Ivor Noël Hume

Scratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at Jamestown, Virginia

Merry Abbitt Outlaw

Antique Porcelain 101: A Primer on the Chemical Analysis and Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century British Wares
J. Victor Owen

Parian Porcelain Statuary: American Sculptors and 62 the Introduction of Art in American Ceramics
Ellen Paul Denker

“And Freedom To The Slave”: Antislavery Ceramics, 1787–1865
Sam Margolin

“The Very Man for the Hour”: The Toussaint L’Ouverture Portrait Pitcher
Jonathan Prown, Glenn Adamson, Katherine Hemple Prown,
and Robert Hunter


Ceramics from the Edward Rumney/Stephen West Tavern, London Town, Maryland, Circa 1725
Al Luckenbach

Richard Schalck, Stoneware Potter of Marblehead,
Massachusetts

Robert F. Trent

Brown Mugs and Jugs: A Personal Foray into the Field
of Collecting

James Glenn

New Discoveries
Introduction
Merry Abbitt Outlaw

La Vega Cerámica Indo-Hispano—An Early Sixteenth-Century 195 Caribbean Colono-ware
Kathleen Deagan

A Peacock’s Flight . . . Across 100 Years 199
Beverly A. Straube

Terra Sigillata From a Seventeenth-Century Settlement in Newfoundland
James A. Tuck and Barry Gaulton

The Seventeenth-Century “Lloyd Plate” from the Broadneck Site in Maryland
Al Luckenbach

A Collection of Curious “Canns”
Merry Abbitt Outlaw

A Cache of Eighteenth-Century Flowerpots in Williamsburg
William Pittman and Robert Hunter

The American Foundation of the Chelsea Porcelain
Manufactory, 1745–1784

Stephen E. Patrick

Two Eighteenth-Century Vanity Plates
Joyce Hanes

American Export Wares Excavated in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
Jonathan Goodwin

Archaeology at the United States Pottery Company Site in Bennington, Vermont
Catherine Zusy

The Search Continues: New Insights into Old EdgeWeld
Folk Potters

Mark M. Newell

Bombs Away!: Unearthing a Cache of Terra Cotta Practice Bombs from the First World War
Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied

Book Reviews
Amy C. Earls

Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels
, Moira Vincentelli;
review by Rita P. Wright

Maiolica in the North: The Archaeology of Tin-Glazed Earthenware in North-West Europe c. 1500–1600, David Gaimster (editor); review by Ivor Noël Hume

The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory: Excavations at 108-116 Narrow Street, London, 1990, Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, with J. Victor Owen and Christopher Phillpotts; review by Robert Hunter

Adams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 1779–1998,
David A. Furniss,
J. Richard Wagner, and Judith Wagner; review by Teresita Majewski

Country Pottery: Traditional Earthenware of Britain,
Andrew McGarva;
review by Greg Shooner

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, Regina Lee Blaszczyk; review by Amy C. Earls

Checklist of Articles, Books, and Electronic Resources on Ceramics in America Published 1998–2001
Compiled by Amy C. Earls